Carol Brasington Wilson
Professor of English @Wofford College
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WORK HISTORY
Professor of English @Wofford College
Spartanburg, SC, US
I currently teach courses in modernist fiction and drama, business and professional writing, and first- and second year writing and critical thinking. Family in literature, children\'s lives in literature, and women\'s intercultural lives have been focuses in my recent first-year seminars. Pedagogy that encourages active learning through collaboration as well as individual activity shapes courses I teach. I also offer workshops, presentations, and individual academic success guidance to help students learn, in completing the reading, writing, and critical thinking required in a liberal arts education. My hope is to help prepare them for life-long, global learning, professional excellence, and service. I have been recognized with these memberships and awards:Alpha Alpha Alpha honor society for first generation college students. Faculty/Staff membership 2025.Wofford College Campus Union (Student Government), Faculty Member of the Year, 2017.Southern Conference Inaugural All-Faculty Team, Wofford College representative, 2016.Philip Covington Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Humanities and Social Sciences, Wofford College, 2014Award for Teaching Excellence, South Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities, 2009Greenville (SC) Literacy Association Volunteer of the Year, 1994Mary Mildred Sullivan Award, Wofford College, 1990Finalist, Graduate Student Teaching Award, University of South Carolina English Department, 1982Phi Beta Kappa, 1981Beyond elected and assigned committee work, my service work includes providing academic success presentations for students, mentoring individual students for academic success, offering professional development programming for faculty, and promoting college access initiatives of the college and local community through workshop leadership, participation in the Wofford NCBI team and Wofford Search Advocates program.
EDUCATION
Wofford College
BA, English
University of South Carolina
Ph D, English
ABOUT CAROL BRASINGTON WILSON
Committed to education\'s essential role in developing strong communities of equity and opportunity, I value models of education that emphasize active learning:\"growth mindset\"(Carol Dweck), Arthur Chickering\'s 7 Vectors of Student Development, and supportive, collaborative learning, service, and teaching. Drawing on theories of pedagogy in my classroom-teaching and advising-as-teaching, I strive for excellence through teaching practices that support undergraduates and faculty colleagues in fulfilling their learning goals.Those conceptual foundations support my classroom teaching in first-year seminars, second-year surveys of British and American literature, and major coursework in modernist literature. They also inform my leadership of professional development opportunities for faculty advisors and academic success programming for individuals and groups of undergraduate students. In leading teaching-learning experiences, I believe that learners benefit from clear presentation of complex material, scaffolded opportunities to explore the complexities of information and arguments, and supportive guidance in reading, writing, speaking, and critical thinking. In my experience, the best teaching and learning integrate conceptual competencies (theoretical concepts), informational competencies (specific information that provides evidence and support for explanations of ideas), and relational competencies (skills that allow them to speak and write with effective audience awareness, to develop collaborative, trustful learning and growth).
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